Display-rack for wall-paper



{No Model) 0. M. & H. B. PATTERSON. DISPLAY RAGK FOR WALL PAPER.

Patented June 26, 1894.

STATES NITE PATENT BEIGE. Y

CHARLES. MI PATTERSON AND HERBERT B. PATTERSON, OF CHICAGO,

ILLINOIS.

DISPLAY-RACK FOR WALL-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 522,085, dated June 26, 1 894. ApplioationfiledJ'anuaryE,1894. SerialNo.495,378- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES MORTIMER PATTERSON and HERBERT BRUCE PATTERSON, citizens of the United-States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Display-Racks for Wall-Paper, which is fully set forth in' the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which Figure 1 is a side elevation of our displayrack, with a portion of the frame cut away, Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the display-rack. Fig. 3, a side elevation, showing the opposite sides from the one shown in Fig. 1, with the back portion of the frame cut away; and Fig. 4, a sectional view of a detached portion of the rack, taken at the line 4-4, Fig. 2.

The object of our invention is to make a display-rack for displaying wall-paper, in which the paper to be placed on the side wall is shown, and across the top of it the border is exhibited, and above the border the display of the paperiintended to be used in papering the ceiling, all three kinds of paper being brought into substantially the relative position in which they would be when used 1n paperlng a room.

Our invention consists in the devices for holding the border-paper and the ceiling-paper, whereby they are brought into their relative relations to each other and to the wallpaper, when exhibiting the papers to the purchaser, that they will be in when used in a room, so that the harmony. of the tints, colors and figures may be at once seen, all as hereinafter particularly specified and made the subject matter of the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, A-A represent the uprights of the main rack-frame, made in the usual manner.

B--B represents the bottom cross-piecesg and C, the legs on which the frame is supported.

D, are cross-pieces between the uprights near their tops,'constituting a receptacle for holding the rolls of wallpaper.

E, is a front frame hinged at its upper end to the top of the rack A, by hinges, F.

G, is a notched bar pivoted to the frame E, and is designed to hold the front frame E at any desired angle to the rack A by means of the notches engaging on a cross-piece, H, on

the rack A.

I, is a roll of wall-paper resting in thereceptacle D, the ends of said paper extending down in front of the frame E, as .shown at I; There are several widths of this paper placed side by side, making suflicient to cover the front frame E.

J is a roll of border. The end of the paper of this roll J is clamped by a spring-clamp, L. The clamp L is hinged by means of hinges, MM, to the front frame E, this hinge being made a spring hinge by means of the coiled springs, N.

O, is a handle, by means of which the operator can throw the clamp L- back, and, after placing the end of the paper, as shown, partly cut away at P, under the clamp L, the springs N force the clamp down and clamp the end of'the paper against the side of the frame E, holding it there while the paper is unrolled across the top of the wall-paper I, when the roll J is putunder the spring clamp Q on the opposite side of the frame E. The spring clamp Q also has hinges, R-R, and springs, S, and handle, T,'by means of which it is hinged to the side of the frame E, but can be thrown back, and the roll of paper placed under the front portion of the clamp, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

U, is a frame pivoted to the top of the rack A, as clearly shown at V. This frame U extends entirely across the top of the rack A, and can be thrown back over the top of such rack, or can be thrown forward over the frame E, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 3. On one end of this frame U there is also a clamp, a, hinged by hinges b, which have also the springs, c; and dis a handle by which said clamp is thrown back to receive the end, e, of the roll of paper, f,in the same manner that the clamp L receives the end of the border-paper.

g, is another clamp on the opposite end of the frame U, and operates to hold the roll of paper f in the same manner that the clamp Q holds the rollJ of the border-paper. When this roll of ceiling-paper f has been placed on the frame U, and clamped to be held in position by the clamps a and g, this frame U is swung over above and in front of the frame E into substantially the position shown in" Figs. 1 and 3, when the wall-paper, the border-paper and the paper intended for the ceiling are brought into the relative position there shown, when the purchaser can at once judge of the harmony of colors and figures, and see how they will appear when in actual use in a room. The border-paper or the ceiling-paper may be readily changed, or the wall-paper, and different colors and figures of paper matched to suit the purchaser.

We are aware that display racks have been made having the frame E hinged thereto, provisions being made in the top of the frame A for a receptacle to hold the wall-paper which is displayed over the frame E; but

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The main frame of the rack havlng near its top a receptacle for holding rolls of walla paper; a frame hinged to the main frame at or near its upper end on which the wall paper is displayed; clamps on each side of the frame E for clamping and holding across the wallpaper the b'order-paper whereby the wall-paper and boarder-paper are brought into relatiive juxtaposition to be displayed, as speci- 2. The frame U; the spring-clamps a and g hinged to the frame U; the rack A to which n the frame U is pivoted; and the front frame E hinged to the frame A, all substantially as specified.

3. In a wall-paper display-rack, the springclamps attached to the side of the pivoted frames pivoted to the main rack, in combination with the main rack; and the pivoted frames pivoted to the main rack for clamping and holding the border-paper and ceilingpaper and throwing it in relative j uxtaposition to the wall-paper for comparison, substantially as specified.

CHARLES M. PATTERSON.

HERBERT B. PATTERSON.

Witnesses:

ROBERT 0. PAGE, L. L. (3013mm. 

